恐
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Apprehensive; anxious; if it should be; doubtful whether.
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khíong-ùi i bô̤ lâi;
anxious lest he fail to come.
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i khíong-phàⁿ úa àiⁿ phah i;
he fears I am going to give him a whipping.
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i cò̤ sṳ̄ to sĭ hûang-hûang khíong-khíong, kiaⁿ-ùi cò̤ tāⁿ;
she does things in a flurry, fearful that she will do them wrongly.
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i thiaⁿ tîeh sim lăi cū kiaⁿ-khíong;
when he heard it he was frightened.
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thoíⁿ tîeh i cū khíong-kŭ;
when he saw it he was afraid.
窮
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Impoverished; poor; at one’s wit’s end; exhausted; to the last degree.
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i sĭ phìn-khîong kâi nâng;
he is a very poor man.
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i tŏ̤ khîong-khó kâi sî-hāu to bô̤ nâng pat i;
when he was needy and suffering no one knew him.
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i cí-hûe khîong kêk;
he is now in the utmost poverty.
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khî bī bô̤ khîong;
its flavor is perpetual.
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bô̤ khîong-cĭn;
inexhaustible.
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khîong kìu tŏ̤-lí;
an exhaustive exposition of the doctrine.
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lṳ́ tîeh khîong thóiⁿ i kâi lí sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ a m̄ sĭ;
you must make a thorough examination whether its principle is thus.
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i tŏ̤ khîong-thû kâi sî-hāu, i cêng kìu-cì i;
when he was in extremity, he rescued him.
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cí kâi tŏ̤-lí cū khîong m̄ chut;
cannot search to the botton of this principle.
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khîong-khùn;
utterly exhausted.
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suaⁿ khîong, cúi cĭn, gî bô̤ lō;
headed off on all sides, and with no path open anywhere.
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khîong hieⁿ phiah jíang kâi tī-hng;
the remotest village and most unfrequented place.
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khîong khò, môk tui;
do not follow a thief to bay.
蛩
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A cricket which sings in the walls; a species of locust.
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jît cē àm hâng-khîong cū ki-ki-kìe;
at dusk, the crickets chirp.